Swine validation dates

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If you plan on showing swine for 4-H or FFA this year and have purchased validation tags, you will need to pick one of these three validation dates to take your pigs. • Nov. 9, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the Somerset ISD Ag Barn • Nov. 12, 4 p.m.-6 p.m. at the Jourdanton Ag Barn • Nov. 13, 8 a.m.-10 […]

Stock My Pond Fish Day

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It’s Fish Day Wednesday, Nov. 3, 4-5 p.m. at South Texas Farm & Ranch, 1801 Hwy. 97 E. in Jourdanton. Catfish 4-6 inches will be $69/100 and 6-8 inch catfish are $89/100. They also carry bass, crappie, bluegill, hybrid bluegill, redear bream, koi and minnows. For more information, visit www.stockmypond.com or call 501-676-3768.

Re-register your expired brands

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If you are a livestock or beef cattle producer who currently has a registered brand, it is time to reregister with the county. All brands, marks and tattoos currently registered with any county clerk in Texas expired in August 2021. Brands, which help determine proof of ownership, must be reregistered every 10 years, as required by state law. If not […]

4-H Council Meeting

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Attention 4-H County Council, Ambassadors and Club Delegates: There will be a 4-H Ambassador’s meeting on Thursday, Nov. 18, at 6 p.m. in the Atascosa County Gillespie Annex cafeteria. The County Council meeting will be on the same evening at 6:45 p.m. in the Atascosa Gillespie Annex auditorium. If you are a Club Delegate, the council meeting is the one […]

Free entrance to Texas State Parks Nov. 14 in Honor of Veterans Day

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In honor of both active and retired military, daily entrance fees at Texas State Parks will be waived for all day-use visitors Sunday, Nov. 14. “The dedication, sacrifice and service displayed by the women and men that serve in our country’s military is unparalleled and is a source of pride throughout the country,” said Rodney Franklin, Director of Texas State […]

4-H Livestock Judging Practice

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4-H Livestock judging practice will be held at 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 at the Atascosa Gillespie Leming Annex. Call the Atascosa County Extension Office at 830-569-0034 for more information.

Uri, drought impact state

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Another look at impact of Winter Storm Uri More than eight months after an unprecedented snow and ice storm led to widespread power blackouts in Texas, the Texas Comptroller’s office took an in-depth look at the state’s response and the legislative actions that followed. Texas is the only state in the continental United States with its own electric power grid, […]

Atascosa County 4-H Club Meetings

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La Parita 4-H Club2nd Thursday of the month, 6:30 p.m.Cowboy Fellowship Church, JourdantonJason and Valerie AguilarJason.Sgc@gmail.com Leming/Verdi 4-H Club2nd Monday of the month, 6:30 p.m.Verdi Community CenterCarl Royal, carl.royal@yahoo.com Poteet 4-H Club2nd Tuesday of the month, 6:30 p.m.Rossville Community CenterUsvaldo and Angela Landa Blackhill 4-H Club2nd Sunday of the month, 6 p.m.Blackhill Community CenterKim Lutz, kimlutz97@gmail.com Lytle 4-H Club2nd Monday […]

Verdi community yard sale

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VERDILIZER

Saturday, Nov. 6, from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Verdi will be having a community wide yard sale. There will be people set up to sell at the Verdi Community Center as well as others selling from their homes along FM 1784. If you would like to sell at the community center, give me a call. There is a fee to do […]

The Dreaded Blue Box

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On the Edge of Common Sense

I had just finished loading 184 sevenfoot steel T-posts, old ones, by the way, in my pickup and was unloading a mere 24 bales of hay from the front section of my gooseneck stock trailer. It was a hot, humid afternoon in early fall when the dead branches begin to stick out of the cottonwood greenery, and the garden starts […]